Month: October 2017

Actually listening to player outrage for once, EA have decided to make some very important changes to the loot box and Star Card systems in Star Wars Battlefront II. The entire announcement can be found here, but here’s the gist. ‘Epic Star Cards’ will not be found in crates when the game launches next month.

As soon as you complete Far Cry 5’s tutorial, you can play the open-world shooter co-op online with a friend, Ubisoft has said. You can play through the entire campaign in co-op. Your Friend for Hire appears as a custom player character and can fight alongside you throughout the game, dropping in and out with

A new Monster Hunter: World trailer was released this week to show off a new area, the dangerous Rotten Vale. That horrible name is pretty appropriate, since the Vale is filled with the carcasses of deceased monsters, and descending through the locale means delving into ever more toxic mists. The big baddie shown off here

In a somewhat surprising move, CCP has announced that two of its offices are being shed by the company. The two offices in question are the Newcastle office responsible for VR titles like Valkyrie, and the Atlanta support office. These offices are being sold and closed respectively. The move will affect about 100 staff at

Over the last couple of days, a lot of stories have ran over rumors about a GameStop rental program in gaming media, it turns out these rumors weren’t false. PowerPass will be a part of GameStop‘s holiday strategy, and as such, can be purchased as a gift. For $60, gamers can enjoy “unlimited gaming” for

This week saw the latest round of CitizenCon – The convention dedicated to one of the most successful crowdfunding campaigns – happened in Frankfurt. A lot of new tech for Star Citizen and other new features were shown off. CIG announced a new partnership with Intel where the new Intel Optane 900P will be bundled

In preparation for November’s United Forces server mergers, SWTOR is allowing players to have more active character slots. Free players will go from two to four slots, preferred players will go from six to 12, and subscribers will enjoy 24 character slots total. Additionally, the studio said that if subscribers end up with more than

Star Citizen’s annual Star Citizen CitizenCon event is now underway in Frankfurt the live stream is now active. Here are the times for the various presentations: CitizenCon runs throughout the day and the following highlights can be watched. Note that everything is now running one hour behind. Steam Start 2:30PM Frankfurt / 5:30AM PT /

GOG and Steam both get their Halloween sale underway today offering some spooky themed game at a discounted price. There’s some great stuff on offer as always and there are also various bundles available. 300+ games are now discounted between both retailers. So you should head over to either Steam or GOG to check out

UPDATE: GGG have now announced two new events to fill the release schedule gap left by the pushing back of 3.1.0. Enter Turmoil and Mayhem. The Turmoil event will run from November 10th through the 20th and adds all sorts of mobs and treasure chests to areas. Players who make new characters and reach certain

Shadow of War’s $40 ‘Expansion Pass’ now has a release schedule and more details about the new content overall. Two new Orc Tribes and two new story campaigns are planned for release. No firm dates are set yet, we just have a release window in several different months. Coming up first in November 2017, it’s

According to a report to Co.design, Microsoft announced that manufacturing for the motion sensor input device has been shut down. And it’s not that surprising since Microsoft has been slowly phasing out features for the platform for months now. And before you point and laugh at the “failure”, need I remind you that Kinect sold

After weeks of PTR testing, the Diablo 3 2.6.1 patch has finally been pushed onto the live servers. Here are the final notes for this update as we now head towards the next Season. The majority of the work for this patch focuses on addressing item balance, so the patch notes are chock full of

With the re-release of KOTOR today on the Xbox One, BioWare are going all out to try and entice players to take part in SWTOR as well. The MMORPG’s new promotion, which is giving away the first two expansions (Rise of the Hutt Cartel and Shadow of Revan) and a KOTOR-inspired speeder for all players.

CCP’s EVE Valkyrie Warzone took the game from being a VR exclusive to offering standard monitor gameplay. A lot of new features and bug fixes added to the space combat shooter including HOTAS support and widescreen. The overall experience, especially without VR exclusivity has been much improved. EVE Valkyrie Warzone patch R4.4’s main highlights are the HOTAS

Bandai Namco revealed that upcoming anime fighter Dragon Ball FighterZ will be receiving roster additions beyond its initial release date, which has been announced as January 26, 2018 for North America. Dragon Ball FighterZ is a 2.5D fighter from Arc System Works, the developer of the critically acclaimed BlazBlue series. It is of course based

Let this note serve as a general warning. The following post contains frank discussion of claims of sexual harassment and assault. Update: Overnight, Waypoint published statements from both Malka and Ima Leupp, the woman behind the allegations. There are two points of contention: an incident involving Malka touching a girl in a bar while on

Three “developer sources” leaked the dates out to Kotaku and now we know when you can start draining your wallet again on cheap PC games. The Halloween Sale is expected to start on 26 October and run until 1 November. The Autumn Sale for Black Friday will start on 22 November and end on 22

Earlier this year we talked about the upcoming multiplayer update to Final Fantasy XV, titled Comrades. Well, according to an announcement from the Japanese division of Square Enix, the update has been delayed from its original Halloween release. As of now, the exact release date is not known. Square Enix detailed that the delay has

Microsoft sent out its major Fall update to Windows 10 users this week, and some gamers aren’t happy. A core component of this new update revolves around an anti-cheat protection scheme called TruePlay. TruePlay runs games on Windows 10 inside of a protected data stream that prevents outside processes from directly manipulating them. This protection

It won’t be too long before Total War: Warhammer series players will be able to set up a play-date between Malekith and Grimgor in the Mortal Empires campaign. The release date was confirmed as 26 October earlier this week, and now the free addition has its own trailer and Steam page. Players will soon get

Earlier this month, an effort to get video game lootboxes classified as gambling resulted in an online petition and questions being posed to the British parliament. And in a somewhat strange turn of events, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Department of Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport Tracey Crouch has issued a generic statement in response. The

Football Manager 2018 has been going hard on the pitch in terms of promotion and hype. Four trailers discussing game mechanics have been released to this point, so lets dive in. Lets talks Tactics first. The Tactics screen will be split into two main modular panels that separate your planned versus executed tactics during a

Daniel Zeichner, Labour MP for Cambridge, has submitted two questions with regards to loot boxes and whether they can be deemed as gambling Ove the last several months, a debate has been raging over loot boxes. Not over whether the odds were fair, but whether the mechanics were manipulative enough to be considered gambling. The